Green Synthesis and Characterization of Copper Oxide Nanoparticles Using Psidium guajava Leaf Extract

Abstract

Green synthesis of nanoparticles has gained enormous attention in today's world due to ongoing demand to develop safe, sustainable, cost-effective and environmentally friendly process for synthesizing a wide variety of materials including metal/metal oxides nanoparticles, hybrid and bioinspired materials. In the current study, we have carried out green synthesis of copper oxide (CuO) nanoparticles (NPs) using psidium guajava leaf extract as capping agent and copper acetate as metal precursor. The biosynthesized nanoparticles were characterized using wide variety of techniques i.e. powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD), FTIR, TGA and HRTEM. The PXRD result confirms the synthesis of copper oxide nanoparticles in pure phase having monoclinic symmetry. The average particle size using PXRD was found out to be ∼33 nm.